Book cover



WITNESS:

Feb. 4. 1925. 1,527,864

I. B. GOLDMAN BOOK COVER Filed March 4, 1922 (Ill f8 Patented Feb. 24,1925.

UNITED STATES ISRAEL B. GOLDMAN, OF MEMEHIS, TENNESSEE.

BOOK COVER.

Application filed March 4, 1922. Serial No. 541,171.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, IsRAnL B. GOLDMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee,have invented new and useful Improvements in Book Covers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to book covers and more particularly to a coverdesigned for use on catalogues, or analogous types of litorature, and anobject of the invention is to provide a detachable spring cover holderwhich is carried by the cover of the book and is adapted to engage theleaves.

Another object of this invention is to provide a book cover as specifiedwhich is designed so as to permit the changing of leaves when desired,or permit the addition of leaves to the catalogue, and also to provide abook cover which will permit the assembling of any desired leaves inbook or catalogue form thereby allowing any business house sending outcatalogues to make up a compact neat appearing catalogue of any of theirtypes of merchandise, depending upon the desires of the purchaser orperson receiving the catalogue.

A further object of this invention is to provide abook cover asspecified which will not add materially to the weight of the book orcatalogue, and one which will result in considerable savings in printingexpenses, as the covers are always the most expensive items ofcatalogues.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the following detaileddescription taken in connection with the accompanying drawings wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a book using the improved cover.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section through the cover.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the improved book covercomprises a binder 1 which is constructed of suitable spring orresilient sheet metal to provide a bight portion 2 and catalogue or bookleaf engaging legs 3 which converge towards their free ends for themajor portion of their lengths and then curve outwardly to providearcuate nonrupturing surfaces for engagement with the leaves 4 of thebook. Extensions 5 are formed upon the legs3 in parallel spaced relationthereto to form slots 5, the said extensions having their free edgesadjacent the bight portion 2, the lines of conjunction between the legs3 and extension 5 being rounded as shown at 6 to prevent rupturing ofthe leaves 4 during the assembling of the book. The cover proper,indicated at 7 may be formed of any suitable material such as heavypaper or the like, of which catalogue covers are commonly formed, and itcomprises the front 8 and back 9 together, the connecting portion 10which is doubled into the space between the legs 3 and extensions 5 andform fins 5 as clearly shown at 11 in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Theresiliency of the legs 3 and extensions 5 will tightly grip the foldedportions of the cover therebetween securely connecting the cover to theleaf binder structure 1.

In assembling a catalogue or book using the improved removable cover,the outermost sections of the book are preferably placed first betweenthe facing surfaces of the legs 3 after which the intermediate sectionsare forced between the outer sections, and to facilitate this action anysuitable flat bar such as a thin strip of metal may be used to providesufficient rigidity to the inner edges of the section and after thesections have been forced in place, the strip of metal should bewithdrawn which will leave the book or catalogue in proper assembledcondition.

It will be observed from the foregoing description taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings that any of the leaves or sections of thebook or catalogue may be removed at will, and other leaves or sectionssubstituted therefor, if desired, or that additional leaves or sectionsmay be used, and also that by use of the improved cover the thickness orbulkiness of the book will not be materially increased, and thatcatalogues .may be made up at the business houses or factory to includeonly leaves describing the articles in which the individual purchaser isinterested thereby resulting in a material saving of catalogue cost.

It is, of course, to be understood that the invention may be constructedin other manners and the parts associated in other relations and,therefore, I do not desire to be limited in any manner except as setforth in the claim hereunto appended.

Having thus described my invention what I claim is:

As a new article for manufacture, a book cover comprising a leaf binderformed from a sheet metal strip bent interi ediate its ends to formspaced converging leg portions, a

transverse bight portion, the outer ends of said leg portions being bentupon themselves whereby the ends thereof are disposed in spaced parallelrelation with the said legs to form slots, the outer ends of the legsbeing arranged adj aeent the ends of the bight portion and aeover havingits eonneeting por- 10 tion bent upon itself at spaced intervals andshaped to provide substantially parallel fins adaptedto'he'inseiied intosaid slots.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ISRAEL B. GOLDMAN.

